The Beavers at the spring game.
The Oregon State football team and its fans braved the wet weather early Saturday. What was on display was a situational scrimmage.
Not that anyone was scoring, but the offense eventually won the 9-6.
There were four missed field goals, two each by PKs Trevor Romaine and Max Johnson. Johnson hit from 34 and 38 yards. Romaine connected from 34.
Technically, the offense scored a TD on a 65-yard Malcolm Marable run on the last play. That was when the third and fourth string guys were scrimmaging.
The defense was impressive. There were four INTs by LB Kevin Unga, S Ryan Murphy, S Lance Mitchell and LB D.J. Welch.
There were eight official QB sacks, but there more, and a handful of blown up running plays in the backfield. DE Taylor Henry and DT Dominic Glover had strong games. Here’s some of what coach Mike Riley had to say on the below video.
Here’s a look at the full stat report:
D.J. Welch, 40-yard interception return
Max Johnson, 38-yard field goal
Trevor Romaine, 34-yard field goal
Max Johnson, 34-yard field goal
Malcolm Marable, 65-yard rush
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING (No-Yds-TD)
Malcolm Marable 13-102-1; Ryan McCants, 16-57; Jovan Stevenson, 12-28; Markus Wheaton, 1-11; Sean Mannion, 1-3.
PASSING (Att-Comp-Int-Yds-TD)
Cody Vaz, 32-19-1-234-0; Sean Mannion, 32-13-3-156-0; Jack Lomax, 12-7-0-111-0.
RECEIVING (No-Yds-TD)
Connor Hamlett, 11-153; Jovan Stevenson, 7-41; Tyler Perry, 4-79; Mitch Singler, 3-72; Kevin Cummings, 3-55; Obum Gwacham, 3-20; Markus Wheaton, 2-52; Ryan McCants, 2-8; Darrell Catchings, 1-12; Brett Ackerman, 1-9; Garett Hall, 1-9; Malcolm Marable, 1-3
DEFENSE
LEADING TACKLERS
Michael Doctor, 10; Cameron Collins, 6; Jordan Poyer, 6; Michael Bibbee, 5; Lance Mitchell, 5; Feti ‘Unga, 5; Brian Watkins, 5; D.J. Welch, 5.
TACKLES-FOR-LOSS
Dominic Glover, 3; Josh Parish, 2; Michael Doctor,1; Andrew Seumalo, 1; Cameron Collins, 1; Blake Harrah, 1; Taylor Henry, 1; Kevin Frahm, 1; Shiloah Te’o, 1.
SACKS
Dominic Glover, 2; Michael Doctor, 1; Shiloah Te’o, 1; Andrew Seumalo, 1; Kevin Frahm, 1; Taylor Henry, 1; Blake Harrah, 1.
INTERCEPTIONS
Lance Mitchell, 1; D.J. Welch, 1; Feti ‘Unga, 1.
PASSES BROKEN UP
Ryan Murphy, 3; Josh LaGrone, 3; Josh Parish, 1; Keynan Parker, 1; Brandon Hardin, 1; Rueben Robinson, 1; Anthony Watkins, 1; Taylor Henry, 1.
FORCED FUMBLES
Ryan Murphy, 1.
FUMBLE RECOVERIES
Rueben Robinson, 1.
12 comments
jesse says:
Apr 30, 2011
Missed FG’s in a spring game? That isnt very promising.
beavergopher says:
Apr 30, 2011
No kidding. What happened to Mr Confidence?
scott says:
Apr 30, 2011
was there. I agree. missed field goals. stupid. best QB on the field was Jack Lomax by far. Mannion looked terrible, Cody out QB’d Mannion, but when Lomax came in, it looked like a different team. Marable, the next Quizz?? your thoughts.
He was the best looking RB out there. unfortunately
Cj says:
Apr 30, 2011
Gonna gave to be one of the two incoming freshman at rb! Mccants hasn’t progressed from the time he came to Osu. Just ugly today
tommiet says:
May 1, 2011
This Spring “Game” is all we’re going to get until the fall, how tough would it have been to play a “game”, keep score, and move the ball up and down, you know, sort of like a game? Riley could have done that with the same risk of injury as a situational scrimmage. Locals can watch a practice any time they want to, but a lot of those 5,000 people yesterday drove distance to see the show., and it was boring. It wasn’t the rain that lead folks to pack it up early.
In the past, the Spring Football Game has been a fan event, 5K runs, D.A. throwing the bomb, Evenson, Steven, pounding the middle, lots of big plays, excitement, Pac 10 baseball in the afternoons… I really hope that whoever’s in charge remembers that it’s “our” day, the fan, and for that one day, create some excitement.
A Dog show behind the Truax center on the same day, really?
OS_Beaver says:
May 1, 2011
It almost seems like DeCarolis doesn’t want to grow the program and doesn’t want to do more than the minimu as far as promotion of the program and treating the fans to a day designed for them at the Spring Game. It seems like he is just lazy and doesn’t care much. This effort was so AWFUL that I really belive his recent performance makes him one of the worst ADs.
It just takes some effort and there is next to NONE. With the excitement regarding the Pac-12 and our TV contract and how huge the sport is across the nation, this lack of effort is just embarassing and it is getting to the point where Ed Ray should seriously consider replacing BDC. I would give it my all out heart and energy for 35K a year and I could do a much better job. I have no doubts about that.
I would do my $2 and 2 cans of food or $5 idea and then have more games for kids in Parker Plaza or Truax field. It would be a real game and I would shoot out some memorabilia T-shirts like they do at Blazer games. It would be run where it was just as safe for players to play this game instead of “situational” stuff that would be done in other practices. I would have a couple of well produced videos on the scoreboard and a simple program with players names and numbers.
I then would encourage Steven Jackson and other NFL alum to show up and sign some autographs for 15-20 minutes since they are showing up for practices. I would also make sure there was FULL radio broadcast and get the word out that we want a big crowd.
BDC is just pathetic in his efforts and even though we could support 55K in a Phase 3 stadium if marketing, promotion and the brand was done right………well, it just seems like BDC would rather be in Palm Springs or wherever he was vactationing. He is out of town for a couple weeks and missed the uninspired event. His total lack of any real effort is a scar on OSU athletics and preventing us from reaching anywhere near our potential.
dickylig says:
May 1, 2011
Very dissappointing, this entire spring practice. To call a half-hearted scrimmage a “spring game” is a huge misnomer. We have gotten beat up with so many injuries during our practices that we are afraid to play a real game. Our players cannot possibly get into game shape when they run a play every 90 seconds or more starting at the 35 yardline. Wait til we play a real team. This entire spring, the stigma of soft coaches has been reflected in the sad play that we are seeing. And missing 4 fieldgoals in a so-called spring game; holy toledo, goodness gracious and my stars!. What an embarassment when down in Eugene they are on national TV, they have 43,000 fans, and they zip out a play every 30 seconds or less. Our program has fallen into the dumps.
OS_Beaver says:
May 1, 2011
Does UO AD Rob Mullens get an A+ and Bob DeCarolis a D for the spring game strategies of building their brand, engaging the fanbase, staging an event with production value, and supporting the community?
UO attendance was 43,468
OSU attendance 5,519
UO allowed you to get in free with two cans of food. Perhaps others paid $5 who did not have cans. I don’t know how that worked. But undoubtedly they probably ended with 75,000 cans of food or more. They had the whole town buzzing and got coverage on ESPN2 butb they still all showed up with passion. I am sure concessions sales alone made up for this strategy by Rob Mullens and one would guess about $100K or so was made on concessions.
OSU effort: OSU went with a pay $5 strategy which is not excessive but does keep out some community members who otherwise would have liked to have intended because they are on a fairly tight budget. Perhaps with the price of gas it also dissuaded some people from driving down from Portland coupled with if they brought a couple of children over age 11 that would be another $20 for a family of 4. Regardless OSU would have got 26K from the gate if all were 12 and up. They weren’t so we should probably assume the take was not likely much above 20K. Taking a similar average to the Ducks for concessions of around 2.30 per guest that adds $12,700 to the 20K at the gate for $32,700 total.
If UO made 100K on concessions + a small amount for those who may have given $5 instead of cans, we will be conservative and say they raised 105K. But they had a HUGE crowd that involved much of the community and they ALSO collected 75K cans of food to do ALOT of good.
OSU just raised $32,700 with no other added benefit of major collection of food to support the community, without the community buzz that made it a hyped event for many in Eugene, and without the national exposure.
Can OSU continue to just be status quo and not try to improve anything? UO had 25K fans last year and improved that by 18K this year to 43,468. Nearly a 74% improvement.
Bob DeCarolis just doesn’t seem like an inspired enough individual at times for Oregon State.
What would have been the right strategy? They could have said $5 OR 3 cans of food at the gate maybe and put out the word a few weeks early. Maybe then they would have gotten a bigger crowd of 8-9K and still had close to 20K at the gate but also 12-15K of cans collected and close to 20K in concessions.
In that scenario they could have collected possibly $37-40K and also 12-15K of cans for the community. When you try you actually can do better. My feeling is that BDC thought that a mere 5K potential increase in actual $$ wasn’t worth getting cans involved. Maybe he thinks he is too good for that.
Hence I stand by my A+ for Rob Mullens and D for Bob Decarolis who was vacationing while all this was going on.
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(Note about the author. I am a passionate Beaver who expects our AD to try its best and want to build OSU athletics into a more powerful brand to compete at or towards the top of the Pac-12.)
OS_Beaver says:
May 1, 2011
COUPLE OF THINGS:
1) OSU is leaving WAY too much VALUE on the table by playing this 35 yard line garbage. They can do that any day of practice. The Spring AGme needs to be an event put on FOR the fans and BUILDING the program. It needs to be a real 4 quarter game like at UO and they just tell the players to take it easy on the hits and there are no sacks.
2) We have Economics professors. The Valley View was highly successful and a study in supply and demand.
OSU needs to figure out how to max the Spring game and the real games and do a study on the best strategy to usually fill up a 55K stadium. I think improving the game day experience which will be partly done with a new west side can take care of most of it.
For the Spring Game maybe OSU is best served by a $2 and 2 cans of food or $5 without cans approach. That they they get some revenue from all fans, but it really is not limiting more than 1 or 2% of the population. Something like that is probably our winning formula and can be done with guesswork or a quick talk with an economics professor. Then you probably get 2500 extra butts in the stands and easily if you play a real game. It isn’t rocket science.
CBvr says:
May 1, 2011
Well, I would think by now that more of us would give Riley the benefit of the doubt about running this team. Yeah, I was dissapointed in the scrimmage format, but Riley was looking at evaluating some specific players in specific situations. The film from the day will be studied by all the coaches. The got a lot of plays to study. Personally, although we will definitely miss Quizz, I was happy for McCants – not TDs, but he moved the pile every time and no FUMBLES! Go Beavs
Beavisfunny says:
May 2, 2011
I’ve been to all the practices, Cam Collins is OSU’s best player… hes got to be pre season 1st team all Pac 12
dickylig says:
May 2, 2011
If it is true that Bob D. was vacationing during our so-called spring game and did not deem it important enough to attend, even though football is the largest revenue generator for OSU sports, and one would think as the Director of Athletics he would be interested enough to supervise the operation, then I am again calling for this little rascles’ head. Shame on you, Bob. Riley must wonder what kind of support is he being given? This spring scrimmage specifically, and last few weeks of spring practice, has been a huge emabarassment!